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Presenting the Zero Waste strategy to the UN Food & Agriculture Organization
Posted on 2 days agoRossano Ercolini, president of Zero Waste Europe and Goldman Environmental Prize 2013 Winner, will speak about “Zero Waste strategy” in Rome in the 38th Session of the Food and Agriculture... -
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ZeroPlasticWeek Challenge is now!
Posted on 1 week agoWe use so much plastic! Plastic waste that ends up in our oceans! Fish eat plastic and we eat fish…… Buying less plastic = less plastic waste! From Monday, 10... -
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27 Blogs Sharing Creative Ways to Reuse Your Leftovers
Posted on 3 weeks agoInstead of tossing out leftovers from last night’s dinner, transform them into a totally new dish. If you get creative enough, the family may not even realize that they are... -
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ZW Best practices: Hernani
Posted on 4 weeks agoHernani is one of the first towns in Gipuzkoa to have declared Zero Waste. As a result, since 2009 waste recycling has almost quadrupled whereas waste generation has been substantially... -
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Time to vote out waste at the People’s Design Lab
Posted on on 05/14/2013One of the most challenging fractions of waste in a zero waste vision is all that is left over after recycling—because it is either too toxic to be safely recycled... -
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What to do with the “leftovers” of Zero Waste
Posted on on 05/09/2013Zero Waste is about minimising waste generation, maximising reuse & recycle and redesigning the economy in order to phase out those products that are either toxic or not recyclable. However,... -
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From the 3Rs to the Zero Waste hierarchy
Posted on on 04/30/2013Have you heard of the 3R, Reduce, Reuse Recycle? This was the first waste hierarchy that was popularised. Even Jack Johnson wrote a song about it, see: It is true... -
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Catalan Zero Waste network launches pilot bottle-deposit project in Cadaqués
Posted on on 04/18/2013When waste has a value littering disappears and recycling skyrockets. This is in a nutshell what the deposit system for packaging waste is about; one pays a deposit when buying... -
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Rossano Ercolini, president of Zero Waste Europe 2013 wins the Green Nobel award
Posted on on 04/15/2013The Goldman Environmental Prize, considered to be the “Green Nobel”, has been awarded to Rossano Ercolini, leader of the Zero Waste movement in Italy (Rifiuti Zero) and president of Zero... -
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Kick off of the Citizens Initiative for a Italian Zero Waste Law 2020!
Posted on on 04/02/2013Capannori was the first European town to adhere the Zero Waste goal for 2020, will Italy also be the first EU country to pass a ZW law? On March 27... -
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How much plastic litter is currently in EU waters?
Posted on on 03/22/2013Nobody knows. In fact, marine litter in European waters is not only of European origin, it stems from any other place in the world where trash is dumped into the... -
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Looking for solutions to single-use coffee-capsules
Posted on on 03/12/2013Since the invention of coffee-capsules we have seen how this potentially recyclable item was filling up more and more waste bins. In places where waste separation is at highest levels...


